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Ingram Micro Adds Partners to E-Commerce Push
Distributor Ingram Micro Inc. has launched an e-commerce program designed to give VARs the tools and services they need to launch online storefronts, including connections to pricing/availability systems at vendor sites and the ability to transmit price quotes to end users electronically. The Santa Ana, Calif.-based distributor this week gave the initiative a boost by…
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AMD Unveils Low-Power Opteron
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is rolling out a low-power 64-bit Opteron processor that company officials said is ideal for dense platforms such as blade servers. At the Server Blade Summit 2005 in Santa Clara, Calif., on Tuesday, AMD announced the Opteron Model 248 HE, a low-power version of the current 2.2GHz Opteron 248. The current…
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SCO Plans for the Future
SALT LAKE CITY—Darl McBride, the CEO of The SCO Group, has big plans for his company going forward, whether or not it wins all the current litigation it is involved in against IBM and others. The Lindon, Utah, company has sued IBM for some $5 billion, alleging it illegally contributed Unix code, to which SCO…
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Novell’s OES Server May Draw Business Customers
Jack Messman, CEO of Novell, is cautious about forecasting the future of the Open Enterprise Server, which combines NetWare services on top of either the Netware or SuSE Linux Enterprise Edition kernel. “We believe in Linux,” said Messman. “We’re migrating all 6,000 of our desktops from Windows to Linux. But with an enterprise operating system…
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Sniffer Portable Troubleshoots Latest Wireless Networks
Network General on Tuesday continued trying to build momentum from its spinoff from Network Associates Technology Inc. with a new release of its Sniffer Portable protocol analyzer. Sniffer Portable 4.8, a software-only analyzer typically used on Windows-based laptops, adds real-time protocol decodes, allowing users to “see details of captured data in real time for quicker…
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Filter-Feeding Managers Clog the Workflow
During the ’90s, the phrase “real-time business” was the shibboleth of a particular brand of corporate executive: brash, often arrogant, fiercely ambitious and pretending to be iconoclastic as a way to set himself apart, while actually conforming to the trendiest academic fads. A decade later, the very executives who conceived and implemented the “real-time business”…
